Dazzling Quotes - Page 8

• I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.

  Agnes Repplier

  Sunshine, Biblical, Years

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• There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. But this would deny those of us who don't believe in censorship the use of the only counter-balance: the freedom of the press to say that there's anything conceivably damaging in these films - the freedom to analyze their implications. How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience?

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Believe, Thug

  "Stanley Strangelove". Review of "A Clockwork Orange" in January 1972. "Deeper into Movies". Book by Pauline Kael, www.visual-memory.co.uk. 1973.

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• Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
  Tobacco, balloons, and steam,
  Are little events that have come to pass
  Since the days of the old regime.
  And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,
  I'd give--though it might seem bold--
  A hundred years of the Golden Age
  For a year of the Age of Gold.

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh

  Years, Giving, Age

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.28

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• Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

  James Montgomery

  Art, Flower, Blue

  James Montgomery, Robert Carruthers (1858). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir”, p.161

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